Been in prison for the last six months? While you were inside, Location-Based Services (LBS) became the new cool. Some of this new generation are status games (Foursquare, Gowalla); some of them are about local reviews and services (Yelp, Rummble, Poynt).
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Researchers from Psychster created social media marketing content in a variety of formats to see which worked best. They used the allrecipes.com and Facebook social networks, conducting surveys with users after they’d been exposed to the content. Techcrunch editor Michael Arrington believes that the era of trying to manage one’s online reputation is almost over: Trying to control, or even manage, your online reputation is becoming increasingly difficult. Continue reading Managing Your Online Reputation: Pukka Tips As you know, the rumour is that the cool kids aren’t blogging anymore. Oh no, they’re microblogging (Twitter, Facebook), or what I’m going to call miniblogging (tumblr, Posterous, Soup.io). Miniblogging is more than status updates, but not as onerous as a fully-fledged blog. MoMA New York’s department of architecture and design has acquired the @ symbol for its collection. This is a fine piece of puffery, of course. The symbol cannot be owned by an individual gallery since it already belongs to all of us. |             | |||
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Six Reasons to Allow Anonymous Comments
While we slept and watched England #fail at sport over the weekend, our American colleagues were having a rousing discussion of the rights and wrongs of allowing people to comment anonymously on news sites, blogs and forums.
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